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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6903525 | Motor temperature sensor system and method to determine motor performance A method and apparatus is herein disclosed for determining the motor performance of an electric motor through monitoring the temperature of rotor magnets. The temperature is determined by initially heating the rotor magnets to two known temperatures and subsequently... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6477445 | Method and apparatus for controlling an industrial robot An equipment for controlling an industrial robot, which robot has a plurality of rotation and/or translation axles (ax 1-6), comprising a motor (15) at each of said axles for generating desired movements of the arms and/or the wrist, of which the robot is... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6348773 | Laser scanner for controlling the optical scanning of bar codes A scanner determines whether a target is a bar code symbol and, if so, whether that symbol is one-dimensional or two-dimensional. For two-dimensional symbols, the scanner aligns a scanning pattern with the symbol and expands the scanning pattern to reach ... | 02/19/2002 |
| 5252903 | Motor control circuit for autofocus unit A motor control circuit for an autofocus unit which microsteps a stepping motor to turn a rotor and drive a focus lens, which circuit has a memory which stores data on current values of a plurality of phases at rotation-stopping positions of the rotor, a ... | 10/12/1993 |
| 5019764 | Portable laser scanning system and scanning methods having a resonant motor control circuit A lightweight hand-held scanning device for repetitively scanning a laser light source having a laser light generating means and at least one high speed scanning motor controlled by a resonant motor circuit which automatically controls the frequency and a... | 05/28/1991 |
| 4902950 | Numerical control method with response delay compensating function A numerical control method is provided, which is capable of compensating for a response delay of a servo system to command pulses to thereby make it possible to repetitively effect reciprocal movement of a controlling object at a high speed over the entir... | 02/20/1990 |
| 4622501 | Ultrasonic sector scanner An ultrasonic sector scanner includes first and second magnetizable stators spaced on a longitudinal axis. First and second rotors are provided in the gaps between the end faces of the first and second stators, respectively. The rotors have tapered surfac... | 11/11/1986 |
| 4463297 | Controller for mechanically actuated device A controller is described for limiting the rate and acceleration of a device positioned by at least one actuator which responds to a sequence of position commands separated by time intervals incorporating a subtractor for taking the difference of two cons... | 07/31/1984 |
| 4439715 | Apparatus for accurately moving a body in accordance with a predetermined motion An apparatus is provided for accurately moving a body in accordance with a predetermined motion. An embodiment of the invention relates to an optical scanning system in which the movement of an intermittently tilting mirror is required to be extremely lin... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4429262 | Three phase motor oscillatory servo control The rotor of a brushless DC motor is monitored continuously, and successive positions thereof are encoded in the form of digital counts. The count is continuously converted to analog form, and is compared with an analog reference signal, to determine the ... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4335342 | Reciprocating drive system for a body such as a carriage supporting electrostatic means for spraying a pulverized material, the system including an asynchronous squirrel cage motor A reciprocating drive system moves a body of defined inertia, such as a carriage supporting electrostatic spraying means, at full speed between two points at which the direction of movement is reversed. The drive system includes an electric motor with pol... | 06/15/1982 |
| 4282467 | Controller system for rotary actuator This invention relates to the hydraulic control field wherein an electronic controller provides the necessary electrical elements for controlling the movement of an actuator shaft from one pre-selected position to another pre-selected position at a pre-se... | 08/04/1981 |
| 4170751 | Electronic control for a mechanized spray painting system An industrial robot for spray painting workpieces carried by a conveyor is provided with a control to allow the programmed robot sequence to proceed synchronously with conveyor movement so long as the conveyor maintains a normal speed. When, however, the ... | 10/09/1979 |
| 4132939 | Driving signal control circuit This invention relates to a driving signal control circuit, in which at least four detecting points (or detectors) are arranged for detecting the position of the working table, which is repeatedly reciprocated between the detecting points. The control cir... | 01/02/1979 |
| 4123757 | Radar sector scan reversal apparatus The present invention relates to a radar sector scan apparatus which reves its direction of scan without causing large current spikes in the scan-producing motor. This result is achieved by switching off the motor before the instant at which the scan dir... | 10/31/1978 |
| 4122379 | Analogue control device for abutment-free stroke limitation of machine tools An analogue control device with at least one electric stroke control emitter for the abutment-free stroke limitation of machine tools, especially honing machines, with which either a tool carrier or the workpiece connected to the machine tool carries out ... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4078198 | Apparatus for repeating the same process Two extreme points of a range within which a movable body is reciprocated, are set by two position setting means provided with variable resistors. The voltage at the sliding contact of a variable resistor coupled to the movable body is always compared wit... | 03/07/1978 |
| 4054824 | Wire bonding unit using infra-red ray detector A wire bonding system is disclosed wherein a patterned substrate to be bonded is composed of at least two materials having different emission rates of infra-red rays, and a point to be bonded on the patterned substrate is positioned so as to coincide with... | 10/18/1977 |
| 3995207 | Digitally controlled repetitive scanning in a radiant energy analyzer A spectrophotometer including a wavelength stepper motor driving a wavelength scanning mechanism and a chart stepper motor driving a chart recorder, both motors being operative in response to driving pulses received from a system clock. The upper limit of... | 11/30/1976 |
